The Last Girls, Lee Smith
The Last Girls, Lee Smith
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The Last Girls

Author: Lee Smith

Narrator: Lee Smith

Unabridged: 12 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/09/2002

Synopsis

The Last Girls centers around four middle-aged Southern women who, as students at an idyllic Blue Ridge women's college thirty years before, were inspired by Huckleberry Finn to take their own raft trip down the Mississippi River. Now a tragedy brings them back together for a repeat voyage under very different circumstances--aboard a luxurious cruise steamboat. Through this framework, which can be seen as a modern-day rendition of Mary McCarthy's The Group, Smith explores the nature of romance, the relationship between life and fiction, the relevance of the past to the present, and the unexpected course of women's lives.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lisa on January 27, 2013

This book had an interesting premise and started out well. Characters were drawn well. However, the book never really gained momentum. Hints were dropped in flashbacks which never quite came together. I kept expecting the book to build into something. You spend time with characters who appear to cha......more

Goodreads review by Lyndall on November 20, 2017

Uhhh, one of the most boring books I’ve ever read. Didn’t know what was going on half the time.......more

Goodreads review by Dana on June 23, 2013

This is one of those books I chose because of its setting (the South), but approached with caution because of its initial similarity to a grown-up version of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants: a group of ladies with distinctly different personalities who are drawn together by a common bond. I wa......more

Goodreads review by Rosalie on January 10, 2021

Good story about friendship. A little choppy in the format it's written.......more

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